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A large and brightly coloured American tourist paid the price of brashness, vanishing down a predator's throat in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers.
The age-old practice of getting a friend, spouse or bored child to hold the bottom of a ladder while cleaning windows, changing lightbulbs or painting the ceiling may cause more accidents than it prevents, according to a new study.
The Bible says very little, if anything, about homosexuality. Most of it has been incorrectly translated or interpreted in order to insert a condemnation.
Now it can be told: Bigfoot isn't real! At least that's the claim being made by Bob Heironimus, a retired Pepsi bottler from Yakima, Wash., who says that he donned a gorilla costume and appeared in the famous grainy film clip back in 1967.
There's a cheat code in the software running the BMW M3's sequential manual gearbox (SMG): Press the right buttons in the right order and the car will launch you from a stop after revving the engine to 5,000 rpm. But don't look for a how-to in the owners' manual — this feature is undocumented, an inside joke of sorts.
Say you get up from a slot machine to move along, but somebody slides right in behind you and on the first spin hits a big jackpot -- your jackpot, if only you had played one more spin, right? Wrong.
A passenger on Israel's El Al airlines got a complimentary gift on a flight home from Germany — a pistol that security guards slipped into his suitcase.
Millions of Americans have spent two hours listening to the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ speaking in an exotic, unfamiliar tongue. Yet not all find Aramaic so alien.
Jesus Christ was a family man. He was married to Mary Magdalene and had several children, including a daughter named Sarah. Their descendants are alive today. This is the great secret uncovered in the course of Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code.
Adult-themed vignettes, played out in tiny plastic bricks, are a secret diversion at the Carlsbad theme park, where "master builders" make a sport of putting risque scenes into G-rated landscapes.
Just up the hill from the Gaines' dairy farm stands a small building that looks a lot like a sugar shack, the kind of thing many Vermont farmers rely on to supplement their income. But this one-story building houses a human crematory run by a couple of former back-to-the-landers who say they want to provide a personalized end-of-life service.
Have you heard this story? I did, right around the holidays, regarding The Roadhouse restaurant in Trivoli. So did a lot of other people, more often about the Texas Roadhouse in East Peoria.
